Total Eclipse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKL EIMN OPQ RNIIS STN| Not wanting to write | A |
| for fear that anything | B |
| the passion for the page | C |
| the love of carbon ribbons erasers | D |
| will distract me from your face | E |
| from your eyes green | F |
| as the flickering base of flames | G |
| your tarnished copper hair | H |
| - | |
| My love is thick as rust | I |
| just as hard to scrape off | J |
| It glows like the green roofs of paris | K |
| it shines in the sun like dropped pennies | L |
| - | |
| I fix on your face | E |
| until I am blurred bleared | I |
| until my eyes cannot focus | M |
| all words become one | N |
| - | |
| Oh let me write you into my life | O |
| I am afraid of rust tarnish | P |
| but even more afraid of this gleam | Q |
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| When my eyes have taken you in | R |
| when my body has eaten | N |
| spat you out | I |
| when my heart remembers to beat | I |
| my fingers remember the pen | S |
| - | |
| will I still remember you then | S |
| boyish sly | T |
| yet a total eclipse of my sun | N |
Erica Jong
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